100 FARMS. 



ty of its resources, all the fruits of patient and methodical labor in 

 time past, render it a theatre for the most successful agricultural 

 experiments. As a specimen of the system of husbandry (the 

 Scotch) -which has been applied to it, it is hardly surpassed — the 

 fundamental work having been accomplished, we doubt not the 

 present proprietor will reap the reward. Here, if anywhere, the 

 profits of New England agriculture may be put to the test. And I 

 doubt not the account of Major Poore's labors will be as interesting 

 as that of his father's, when his residence on the farm shall have 

 been long enough to furnish the opportunity. 



I am truly your obedient friend and servant, 



GEO. B. LORING. 

 Hon. David Choate, Chairman of Essex Com. on Farms. 



The chairman of the committee having reason to believe that 

 Ira Worcester, of Ipswich, had for a series of years been successful 

 in agricultural pursuits, called on him Oct. 5th, requesting oppor- 

 tunity to become acquainted with his mode of farm management. 

 Mr W., it must be premised, is the accomplished master of the House 

 of Correction, Jail and Lunatic Asylum. His own farm, in dis- 

 tinction from the County farm, consists of 23 acres of land lying in 

 the South parish. The principal products of his farm in 1854, were 

 24 tons of English hay, for which he received $20 per ton, and 

 400 bushels of potatoes, — 315 of which he sold for one dollar per 

 bushel. 



Mr. W.'s farm of 28 acres cost him $4,600, and for the last four 

 years it has paid seven per cent, on the outlay, annually, and in 

 1853 it paid seven and a half per cent. 



Mr. W. keeps six cows, two heifers, three swine, one horse, two 

 colts. "With this stock, supplied as they are with the necessary 

 materials, he made last year 78 loads of manure, or 89 1-2 cords. 

 And it may be well to say, as many suppose meadoiv mud to be the 

 indispensable basis of manure, that Mr. W. has no material of this 

 kind at command. He buys spoilt hay for his colts to stand upon, 

 and once in two or three weeks this is thrown out and packed up 



